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Contributed by: -=Someone=- Tuesday, January 23 2007 @ 10:53 AM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: NO

This is not feedback about the front end, but rather the core software.

ClamAV does not include on access/on demand scanners, and it cannot clean any virus it finds. It can only quarantine. These two fundamental issues seriously affect the usefulness of ClamAV.   

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FYI - joelmcintosh

You are right, but it's really not much of a disadvantage. In most cases it is better to delete the infected file and replace it with a new copy. Of course, this can be an inconvenience if you want to remove macros from MS Office documents and use them stripped. Otherwise, it's not a big deal.

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Sunday, February 18 2007 @ 08:23 PM PST


FYI - shaunmcdonald131

With the Mac there is ClamXav Seventry that allows you to continusly scan files that have been changed in ceratin locations.

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Monday, February 19 2007 @ 05:14 AM PST


FYI - etherite

In addition to the ClamXAV Sentry mentioned by another poster, there is also a Contextual Menu Plugin that allows you to scan an item selected in the Finder by crtl-clicking (or right clicking if you have a mulit-button mouse.)

There is also a schedule function to autoscan at a specified time or day.

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Tuesday, March 06 2007 @ 01:52 AM PST